AI assistants simulated by LLMs have minds in every positivistically meaningful sense in which humans do.
To pick random examples from the post:
The specific tensions within the thought are not communicating back local-contextual demands from the specific thought back to the concepts that expressed the more-global contextual world that was in the backgroundwork of the specific thought.
AI assistants can do this by changing their mind mid-writing.
In short, “this is a good thing for me to say right now”.
This isn’t even true about humans—humans who altruistically say things that are bad for them exist. To the extent it’s true about humans, it’s true about AI assistants as well.
It won’t correct itself, run experiments, mull over confusions and contradictions, gain new relevant information, slowly do algorithmically-rich search for relevant ideas, and so on. You can’t watch the thought that was expressed in the text as it evolves over several texts, and you won’t hear back about the thought as it progresses.
While AI assistants can’t run true experiments per se (even though they can ask the user, reason about all they have learned during training, browse the Internet, write software and run it), humans usually aren’t more diligent than AIs, and AIs inability to run true experiments (at least for now) is unconnected to their presence or absence of a mind.
AI assistants simulated by LLMs have minds in every positivistically meaningful sense in which humans do.
To pick random examples from the post:
AI assistants can do this by changing their mind mid-writing.
This isn’t even true about humans—humans who altruistically say things that are bad for them exist. To the extent it’s true about humans, it’s true about AI assistants as well.
While AI assistants can’t run true experiments per se (even though they can ask the user, reason about all they have learned during training, browse the Internet, write software and run it), humans usually aren’t more diligent than AIs, and AIs inability to run true experiments (at least for now) is unconnected to their presence or absence of a mind.